Happy Mail

I had some very happy mail delivered by Mr Postie last week. I was lucky enough to win the Rubber Dance stamps Christmas challenge and my prize was some gorgeous stamps from Bibi. Just look at this lovely haul. Bibi included a sweet tag too and my envelope was also beautifully decorated.

I also received some happy mail from Linda over at the Funkie Junkie. Part of this haul was bought with vouchers I had won over at Frilly and Funkie and from Lisa with the Visions of Sugarplums Christmas hop. I chose lots of Wendy Vecchi goodies.

 I decided to have a play with Bibi's lovely antique botanicals set. I also wanted to play with my Wendy Vecchi vintage quilt stencil.

I chose the camellia stamp, top left,  as I thought I would make a vintage card for my Etsy shop.
I also used my Wendy Vecchi vintage quilt stencil.

 I used some distress inks on watercolour paper and bumped some archival ink through my stencil  The "with love" die cut is from my blogging buddy Di, another win last year. I LOVE this little die.

 I stamped the flower onto a snippet of paper and coloured it with matching distress inks.

You will see my new Joy floral oval die came out to play again, this time with glitter card. Such a pretty die.

It is for sale via the link here

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Simon says stamp Wednesday  anything goes
Simon says work it Wednesdays something new my new are my floral stamp and stencil.
Anything but cute Ring out the old...bring in the new  my new are my floral stamp and stencil.
Pixie's snippets playground  1/3 #214 I used a snippet of paper for stamping on and a snippet of card for my sentiment.
Noor anything goes
Whimsy stamps with love
The Artistic Stamper anything goes
As you like it 1/3 favourite 1 or multilayer mine is multi, I find it quite hard to keep to CAS one layer cards. I really enjoy taking time with my creations so I tend to add other dimensions to my cards.
Allsorts 1/3 bring on the bling
Sweet stampin 1/3 Valentine's
The Ribbon Girl  with love
We love 2 create 1/2 #3 anything mixed media
The Craft Barn triplets/trios the stamp I have used has a trio of flower heads.


Bear went home on Wednesday night, he was such a good boy. Here he is just before he went home

Billy has got his house back now and my legs are getting a little longer after wearing them down with 3 walks a day!

The drizzly rain and wind has returned so I think that some crafting will be occurring here today.
Keep snug I hope that you can enjoy some creative time too. Januray comes to a close today, although we have been really busy it has seemed like an incredibly long month. I am looking forward to February...Valentine's day, my son's birthday and lighter evenings will all feature.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x